Free markets and poverty: since 1980, as the world has deregulated its markets, income gaps have widened. Why is this record heralded as a success?(Statistical Data Included)
American Prospect, The, January, 2002 by Hersh, Adam
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FOR BETTER THAN TWO DECADES, THE ORTHODOX recipe for global growth has been embodied in the so-called Washington Consensus. This approach, advocated by the United States and enforced by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), holds that growth is maximized when barriers to the free flow of capital and commerce are dismantled and when individual economies are exposed to the discipline, consumer markets, and entrepreneurs of the world economic system.
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Proponents of this view have contended that the free-market approach to development will also alleviate poverty, ...
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